​Dr. Deidra J. Morrison

In August of 2016, Dr. Morrison joined Claflin University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.

Biography

Dr. Deidra Morrison has a Bachelor of Science degree awarded from Spelman College in 2002, as well as a Master of Science and Doctoral degree in Computer Science from Northwestern University. In 2009, Dr. Morrison began as a postdoctoral researcher at Clemson University in their Division of Human Centered Computing in the School of Computing at Clemson University through the Computer Research Association’s CIFellows Postdoctoral program funded by the National Science Foundation.

In 2012, Dr. Morrison transitioned from postdoctoral researcher to Research Assistant Professor in the Division of Human Centered Computing in the School of Computing, and the Department of Public Health Sciences at Clemson University in Clemson SC, through a National Institute of Health supplemental grant. In 2016 she began an Assistant Professor teaching position in the Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at Morris College, in Sumter SC. During this time she began her participation in the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSAs) K-20 CECOR Consortium through her position as academic faculty at Morris College.

Following that year, Dr. Morrison was selected for a faculty-in-residence position at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to supervise student scholars in cyber security research and facilitate summer scholar courses in scientific writing. In August of 2016, Dr. Morrison joined Claflin University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.

Morrison, D. and Dennis, B. (2005). MetaLab: supporting social grounding and group task management in CSCL environments through social translucence. In Proceedings of the 2005 Conference on Diversity in Computing (Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, October 19 - 22, 2005). TAPIA '05. ACM, New York, NY, 20-22